Bill: Yeah, I know. I remembah when you were saving up the 25 hundred to go dinnah with him. Whatevah happened with that?

Doug: The more I thought about it the more I was like, shit, the dude's under house arrest. How much fucking fun can we have? I want wild times and rampant roids and shit.

Bill: You coulda ordered up some hookers.

Doug: Ho to go? The thought crossed my mind. But remembah, Jose's a pinche broke ass mofo. It's one thing to pay 25 hundred to hang out with him. It's anothah thing entirely to pay to get him laid too.

Doug has used that line a couple of times. That's one of the cool things about being the omniscient voice behind the characters: I can have them repeat things and it actually becomes part of their characterization, i.e., Does Doug realize he says this line repeatedly? If so, why does he do it? If not, what does that mean?

Depending on how you, the reader, answer those questions, will in large part be due to how you perceive him.

And if he starts to say that line (or any other line repeated) more frequently, what will that mean? How will that effect the reader response to his character?

I'm with Rick. I think your off-season strips have been stellar, perhaps because they are in some ways thematic (and thus endlessly inventive) rather than straightforward reactions to the previous night's game. (I especially love the meta ones where the characters rag on bloggers, heh.)